Orson Wells was a film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s novel, The War of the Worlds.The radio drama was performed on the Mercury Theater of the Air. His first film with RKO was CitizenKane in 1941, in which he starred as Charles Foster Kane. It is felt by many to be the greatest film ever made. Another Wells masterpiece is Touch ofEvil (1958). On October 10, 1985, Wells did his final interview on The Merv Griffin Show (below).